Mostly About Organized Crime

11/12/2012

With little pushback from law enforcement within its borders the United States increasingly
is serving as a global distribution hub for the Mexican drug cartels.

Last week police in Melbourne, Australia busted two suspects including a reputed "high ranking member of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club" for their alleged roles in receiving cocaine shipments from an unidentified Mexican drug cartel in the United States as reported by Andrew O'Reilly for Fox News: "while it is unclear which cartel the outlaw motorcycle club members were working with, it is well known that Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel has a major stake in Australia's burgeoning cocaine market."

Earlier this month Quebec police charged more than 100 individuals for their alleged
roles in a drug conspiracy which used a trucking firm to bring cocaine
into Canada from the United States, and the arrested include those with
suspected ties to the Italian Mafia, the Irish West End Gang and Hells
Angels motorcycle club as reported by The Canadian Press.

The 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia also has developled a partnership
with the Mexican cartels in the United States for moving cocaine from
New York City into Italy. Nicola Gratteri, a top anti-Mafia prosecutor
in Italy warns that "this mafia is quickly spreading in the United
States, particularly in Florida and New York" as reported by Beatrice Borromeo for The Daily Beast:
"Gratteri's latest operations . . . uncovered a new route in the
mafia's international drug trade, centered in New York City, where the
crime syndicates can secure easy access to cocaine shipped in by
Mexican cartels."

The success of the Mexican cartels in building their massive drug
distribution and marketing networks across the county is a reflection of
the U.S. government's intelligence and operational failure in the war
on drugs, said Fulton T. Armstrong, a former national intelligence
officer for Latin America and ex-CIA officer. "We pretend that the
cartels don't have an infrastructure in the U.S.,"
said Armstrong, also a former staff member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and now a senior fellow at American University's
Center for Latin American and Latino Studies. "But you don't do a
$20 billion a year business . . . with ad-hoc, part-time
volunteers. You use an established infrastructure to support the
markets. How come we're not attacking that infrastructure?"

Let's face it: the U.S. is just a druggie nation.

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11/02/2012

Quebec police have busted more than 100 individuals for their alleged roles in a drug conspiracy which used a trucking firm to bring cocaine into Canada from the United States, and the arrested include those with suspected ties to the Italian Mafia, the Irish West End Gang and Hells Angels motorcycle club as reported by The Canadian Press:

Police said the organization, which had been under investigation for
about six months, managed to rake in an estimated $50 million in that
short time. * * * The group allegedly used a middleman to co-operate with Mexican drug
cartels and appeared to have the capacity to import and distribute about
75 kilograms of cocaine per week.

07/28/2010

*** Interpol is hunting for fugitive David MacDonald Carrol, a reputed member of the Hells Angels Nomads chapter in Quebec, Canada, who is "alleged to have been involved in the murder of 13 people and the attempted murder of two others."

*** Reputed West End Gang leader Gerald Matticks may soon be released from prison after serving eight years on "several charges related to multimillion-dollar drug smuggling conspiracies carried out through the Port of Montreal": "Investigators later learned Matticks was using his influence at the port to help the Hells Angels get hundreds of kilograms of cocaine through."

Braun . . . orchestrated the illegal importation of 110 tons of pot dating back to at least November 2007, according to court papers . . . . The contraband was concealed in vehicles entering New York from Canada through the Akwesasne Native American reservation in upstate Franklin County. Court records do not say whether anyone on the reservation has been criminally charged. Prosecutors said the weekly shipments of pot were delivered to "stash houses" on Staten Island and Queens.